So the title of my talk is From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love: Case studies in insider threat.
For those who cannot read circular galifrian I am Tess Schrodinger. Agenda first. Going to go over just kind of an introduction of myself and then my slides. Little bit of history some, some definitions. I'd like to get to current research if possible if I have time. I got to cut this down and make it short so I can't be very funny. For those who don't know I won the contest this year. So thanks for voting for me if you voted.
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So who am I? I've got about 20 years of law enforcement investigation, industrial security experience. Forensics. I say bullets and bloods not ones and zeroes because back when I did forensics if we encountered a computer which was rare, we'd have to call in the state. There was, like, a dude in the closet somewhere who knows what to do with this because it was a long time ago. I have a BA in sociology. A master's in security management. And I just completed my grad Cert in cyber security technology. I've only been doing the cyber part for a couple years. My two mentors will attest to the fact four years ago the most complicated thing I could do was put my out of office on. Now I'm proud to say I can write snort rules. So I've come a long way.
When I say not technical for you guys, one of the things I noticed over the last couple years hearing people talk is the whole insider threat phenomena. They act kind of like it is this new thing. Oh no suddenly we have to worry about this. And if you know your history that's really not the case. Insider threats have been an issue since before the beginning of time if you are counting at zero. Those that are familiar with Judas Iscariot, back with Jesus, he is famous for selling him out for 30 pieces of silver on to the Romans. And, of course, you have Guy Fawkes. Those who have seen V for vendetta are probably familiar with the masks. But not a lot of people at least the ones I run into that are into the trendy thing with the masks realized it's taken from guy fox which was the 1605 gun powder plot to assassin King James the first of England. They had packed the horse of Lords with gun powder in the basement and they were going to blow it to high hell and he was kind of caught guarding everything. So he is the guy who went down with it. That's actually where that mask comes from. He stands for the whole antiestablishment type thing.
4 ADBC quite a long time ago the battle of Thermopoly. Anyone familiar with that? You had the guy that pretty much sold his country out. The Greeks had set up position at this particular place because of how the cliffs were form. It kind of got them down into a narrow line. They were going to be a little easier to tackle as they were coming through single file. And he decided that, you know, he would make a little cash off this. He told the Persian Army how to get around through the mountains to the south so they could actually come up behind the Greeks’ position. We all know how that ended.
His name is actually synonymous in Greece with traitor still today. It's been a very long time and they still use that word for traitor. Just was as in the U.S. if you were to call someone a Benedict Arnold that is synonymous with traitor. We have an international crowd so those not familiar Benedict Arnold was an American revolutionary war general. And very long story short he got kind of bitter and frustrated with the politics and the things that were going on the American side during the revolutionary war. So he decided to defect to the British side. And he was actually in command of west point at that time. And the plan was he was going to just hand West Point over to the British when they came to get it. Major John Andre who was a British soldier was caught on the train. He had the plans to surrender west point on them. So general Washington figured this out before it actually happened. Sent some guys after Arnold. He managed to escape. He stayed in this country, fought on the British side and led raids in Virginia and Connecticut before the end of the war. I believe he ended up going back to England after that. He is one of our big traitors in history here.
Does anyone know who Robert Ford is? Not the Canadian current politician? Yes, I like Robert Ford because sometimes I'll hear people going I ain't got to worry about insider threat I am the threat. That's what Jesse James thought. Robert Ford and his buddy were arrested by the by the sheriff in 1882. They had actually shot and killed the cousin of Jesse James. And the sheriff had caught them and Jesse James wanted to get rid of him was having trouble getting to him. Basically made a deal with Robert Ford and said you take James out and we'll make this go away. Robert Ford of course says sure I can make that happen. So Robert Ford's brother Charlie actually worked with James and was on his gang and team and did jobs with him. So he told Charlie what was going on. You got to help me out, Bro. Charlie goes back to Jesse and says hey my little brother wants to come hang with us and, you know, do some work. James was, like, sure, yeah, okay. Unfortunately it did not end well after breakfast in a boarding house one morning when they went upstairs to pack to hit the next job, Robert Ford put a hole in Jesse James. Game over. Took him out. Insider threat right?
Finally, I can't imagine nobody knows the story of Julius Caesar and how he was betrayed by his friend Brutus. Those who are not familiar with the story. Caesar was a Roman general and politician who actually had risen up through the ranks pretty high. Kind of gotten the point he was dictator for life. This didn't sit really well with a lot of the senators. Because if you have a dictator for life you really don't need a senate. So they kind of were a little worried about their jobs. And in theory they were worried about democracy. I'm pretty sure they were more worried about their jobs. And they kind of got a conspiracy together to take Caesar out. And they tried to convince Brutus to join them but Brutus was his friend and trusted confidant, a member of his inner circle. He had been made governor by Caesar.
By all accounts he was very, very tight and close to Caesar. But Caesar was being a pretty big douche so the conspirators convinced him to join them and they staged an event, invited Caesar. They surrounded him. The stabbing began. Historical accounts say that Caesar did try to fight back and crawl away, but once he saw his friend Brutus was one of the people that had turned against him he just gave up. Interesting trivia I learned apparently the whole ‘et tu Brute’ if you were forced to sit through Shakespeare in school, that is a Shakespearean invention. There's no actual evidence he ever said that. Win your next trivia game with that one. Or hacker jeopardy.
A couple of current cases, more modern. This was four pillars consulting versus Avery Dennison. Has anyone heard of this? If you do security awareness at your organization this is a really fabulous example. I love to use this one. I've used it for years. A lot of times people don't understand that there's a value to what they work with. To them it's, like, well it's not a rocket. It's not, like, this top secret thing. Who cares you know. They don't understand the value. I love this example because Dennison makes labels. They make adhesive stuff that goes on duct tape. Really? If I work there I would probably go who the heck wants this. Apparently someone wanted it bad enough they paid off their lead $160,000 to get it. He over I think about a period of eight years, siphoned this R & D and all these formulas and everything out to them and he was caught and charged. But I think this is a really good example. Because, you know, people are willing to pay that much money for that type of thing, imagine what you work with, and how much someone might be willing to pay for that. And this is again a great example to use with your staff when you are trying to show value to them or at least maybe make them think differently about how valuable what they're working on is.
Then we have Mr. Quentin Tarantino. Is anyone familiar with what happened earlier this year with him? Yes. He had a script that he wanted to do. And he showed it to six people. Six. And he said don't show this to anyone. So of course it's on the internet, like, two days later. He was absolutely furious. And just ballistic about the whole thing. He's got attorneys. He's demanding to know which one of these six people leaked it. I believe he shelved the script. I'm never making this movie and you betrayed me and he is still trying to figure out which of the people he trusted betrayed him. Again, this isn't a high tech or DOD thing. This is a frigging movie script. But, again, he was betrayed by someone he trusted. So couple of quick definitions. Industrial espionage versus economic espionage. I like to give the difference because when you get further into the study it's interesting to see how charges are done and things like that.
Industrial espionage is essentially when two competitors go at each other or, like, corporate adversary type things. Economic espionage is when you get into foreign government or nations which could be through the guise of companies and that's where the law gets all squirrely and people who make way more money than I do deal with that kind of stuff. When I was doing my research I noticed that a lot of words were used kind of interchangeably. And I was asking around like are there hard definitions for any of these? Pardon me it's really dry. These are my definitions. Do not, like, if using them on an exam and the teacher fails you I take no responsibility. These are my definitions. A spy is someone who doesn't necessarily require a preexisting relationship with you. They can have one, but it's not necessarily required. A traitor, on the other hand, has to have that preexisting relationship so they can betray it. What's interesting about insider threat which years ago when I started researching this I did not realize is that an insider threat doesn't have to have a malicious agenda.
So where your spy has an agenda to steal from you or your traitor has an agenda to betray you, an insider can be malicious, meaning they've that agenda, or they can just be, you know, someone who doesn't really care. They're apathetic. Perhaps your security awareness program sucks and they just don't know. They don't necessarily have to maliciously have it out for your firm. They could just be, you know, a Jack wagon and that's your fault. No I'm just kidding. So here's my obligatory sexy slide for DEF CON. I was told we had to have one in all of our decks. Honey pots I know we use them a lot with networks. Honey nets are things like that. But it's also an espionage term. Sharon, this is for the ladies. I say that because over the years when I've been briefed countless times what I found really interesting is that at some point whether it's a man giving the brief or a woman giving the brief, inevitably there is a point where they say, okay, guys, if you are not sexy at home in the bar down the street, you are not sexy 300 miles away from home. Okay. So after a couple of years of this I finally asked one of the guys I worked with. I said, you know, I'm not sure if I should be incredibly flattered that you think that women, you know, we have our shit so much together or we would never fall for boys and their devil penis magic, you know, or should I be insulted that you don't think we have anything of value to come after? Or, like, maybe we're just not worth bothering to tell? I kind of feel like that was the case with Sharon Scranage. A little background.
This occur Ghana in the 80s. The only thing you need to remember from the slide is the name of the man in the coup. Ghana broke free decided to become their own country. They were fighting about who got to be in charge. You know how that always happens. This dude Rawlings stepped up and said I am in charge, no more constitution, no political parties. That's the way it's going to be. His name is important. Remember that as we go forward. So Sharon was a CIA employee. About seven years. She was an operation support assisting ant so I think that's a fancy way to say secretary. By all accounts she was a good girl. She wasn't a bad person. You know, she was honor student, high school cheerleader. She went to church religiously. She sang in the choir. A good girl they say. So what happened to her? Well a gentleman named Michael happened to her. And he happens to be this is where the other name comes in the nephew of the man who ran the coup. So he was assigned to seduce Sharon when she was stationed in Ghana as operations assistant to the station and get as much information as he could out of her. Now the goal was to take that information, he passed it to the chief of intelligence for Ghana, and he in turn passed it along to the KGB, Soviet, Libya, East Germany, pretty much anyone who wanted it. Why did he do this? Well at the time Ghana was pursuing a capitalistic policy. They were really trying to cozy up to Castro in Cuba and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. So having this information helped them get in with some of the people they wanted to get in with. So how was she caught?
She was caught when an inspection team came to the station and she invited some folks over for dinner at her house. Apparently one of them saw a photograph of him taped to her nightstand. I guess you had to pass her bedroom to get to the bathroom. Apparently in the photograph he was not wearing any clothes and he had his sheet draped strategically. He was, like, look Sharon you need to stop. She says okay I'll stop. Which she didn't. So the inspection guy went back to the chief of stations and told him what was going on. They were very concerned. They drew up a report and sent it into SAD the special activities division with CIA. They were basically the division that looked into agents relationships with foreign nationals if they had them. So SAD looked into this and said, we're not really worried. A lot of our folks in foreign countries date foreign nationals regularly. And by most accounts no one felt there was a real big concern at the time. They denied the request to bring her home and said she is almost done there, we will- she is on her way back. She is going to get reposted. We'll just do her poly when she is back on leave.
I don't know how many of you are familiar with poly technique but they hit a question she struggled with. That was have you given classified information to anyone who wasn't authorized. That question really got her. After about four days of interview and interrogation she pretty much just confessed it all and admitted she had been giving all this classified information. I believe it included names of folks the United States thought were potentially KGB double agents, plans for a coup against the current Ghana government by dissidents, com data, stuff on military equipment that Libya and other countries wanted from us. And she was sending out a lot of the names of people helping the CIA. She confessed to all this. She ended up pleading guilty to three of 18 charges. Mostly because she, you know, she felt bad but she also agreed to help catch him. So she had got him to meet in their hotel.
They think the reason because they had planned to use her as a source once she got to Calcutta. But they arrested him instead. He pleaded no contest to espionage. They sentenced him to 20 years in prison but then decide to let him go in exchange for all the Ghanans that had been implicated which she released all that information to them. They had been rounded up and arrested. They believe one person was actually killed because of his involvement. So I think a '94 "U.S. News and World Report" said it cost $13 million to bring all the affected back over to the U.S. and resettle them and get them new lives. And they exchanged him for that. Included among them were, like, a guy with a posted telegraph who had given the CIA the keys to manhole covers so they could get down in there. And the chief of police had been placing wiretaps. So those were some of the guys they brought back over here.
So, why? Well supposedly she was married before she did her CIA career and went over to Ghana. By all accounts her husband had been pretty abusive and not very kind to her. She had just gotten out of a pretty bad marriage. Now you have to picture yourself, you are a black woman in the 1980s in a predominantly white male CIA station. I'm pretty sure they weren't inviting her to play tennis afterwards. So you've got this woman who has left a terrible relationship. She is very vulnerable. Now she is in a foreign country thousands of miles from home and family and support system, probably not with the most supportive working environment that could be given. And along comes this man who just is, like, hey baby how are you doing. And, you know, it's really easy to see how in her vulnerable position she absolutely could have fallen for all of that. Now she claims that in the beginning, you know, he basically just asked for the information. But then she was kind of hesitant so he threatened to break up with her. So she went ahead and got it. But once he had that spigot open she stopped being nice and was pretty much threatening her with a gun. Threatening to kill her office workers or herself. Threatened violence. I think that is probably one of the reasons she agreed to help get him arrested. But I like to share that story because, you know, we talk about the guys all the time and the hot girls. But I think if you are a security person and you have anyone at your environment in a vulnerable position that could leave them open to compromise or being manipulated or being used like this, you need to be aware of that. And you should think of how you are going to handle that and how you can mitigate that problem as an organization. To not only support a staff member but, you know, to prevent damage to your organization at the same time.
A little summary there. The big red flag on this was the fact that she promised to cut the relationship off and refused. Intelligence identities act was a big player in this. And then this is also a huge one because a polygraph played such a key role in her confession and for them discovering this was going on. Remember they didn't really suspect her. It was the Polly that caught it. This is another one. I'm going tell you a little bit about this guy first. I assuming most of you are security professionals. If you're not just pretend you are. I did this with my daughter. I'm, like, tell me when something just doesn't sound right.
So you are at work one day and at this big facility and it's pretty sensitive stuff. It's not Target or 7 Eleven you got sensitive stuff a lot of people want to get at and you are in charge of protecting it. And we've got a delegation of foreign scientists show up. Unannounced for some meeting that that's not been planned that you are aware of. Then one of your staff members saunters through the lobby and says I'm really good friends with one of these scientists. Okay, you know, look at this a little closer. Call in the people that do the forensic testing. And they say, you know, did you know that this dude's been, like, you know, all that sensitive data you have on his network that's not supposed to leave this network, he is backing up copies to tape. Did you know this?
So you go you know what I am not going to jump to conclusions but I think you don't need to be on this project until we get this sorted out. So you take him off the project. Take his badge away. Take his access away. No more network for you right. So you are trying to get this all sorted out and you got him over here and think you got him he goes behind your back to another division to his buddy and goes hey dude can I borrow your computer. And he goes and gets all the shit you took away from him and tapes it again. Red flag.
And then coincidentally about eight years ago you find out that he was actually questioned by federal investigators because he was caught on a wiretap with another dude that just got busted for economic espionage. Spidy senses tingling yet?
Here's this gentleman. Mr. Wen Ho Li. What he did was he worked for Los Alamos national lab. And his job was to create simulations of nuclear explosions. They studied the simulations to improve the liability of the U.S. arsenal. In March of '99 he was fired. The same exact day not sure if they ever pinned down exactly who gave the information to the "New York Times" but they ran this huge story all over the place. In December of '99 at a federal grand jury actually indicted him for stealing U.S. nuclear arsenal secrets and giving them to the people's Republic of China. In September of 2,000, a judge said, all right, if this goes to trial everything on the tape needs to be disclosed. So Louis Freeh and Janet Reno went oh. So they said okay we got to plead the guy out. So the whole deal with the plead out was to keep the data from going public, obviously. Then they also he had to tell them where the tapes had went that he backed up. You know what he said? I destroyed them. That's cool. It's all good. He ended up pleading guilty to one felony count of illegal retention of national defense data. Then in 2006 he settled a $1.6 million lawsuit against the U.S. government and five different major media outlets for dragging his name through the mud before he was indicted.
The big question with him was, was he an insider threat? If you read his book and listen to some government accounts, everyone was bending over backwards to apologize to this man for this unfair treatment and how, you know, okay we're sorry. But you're security professional. What do you think? Take out the charges and what do you think? Was this guy a threat? There you go.
Okay this next guy is my favorite dude. I love this guy. I got to tell you why I love this guy. All right. So you old school folks like me didn't always have, like, hard drive, USB things to put, like, a billion documents on and stick it in your pocket and walk out, right. This guy was, like, total old school. Everything he stole was hard copy. Okay. And I have seen pictures his house. Wow. He was actually caught he had a high level clearance and he was caught during the investigation of another spy. For those who aren't familiar with him a naturalized U.S. citizen, engineer with a division of (inaudible). He was found guilty in 2007 for conspiring to export sensitive defense technology to China.
While they're going through his house and all his stuff, they find these two letters talking about this other guy. And, you know, the handlers are basically, like, hey we know you don't have access to this can you see if Greg can get it for us? So they finally figure out who Greg is and they decide to do some surveillance on his house and take his garbage. He thought he was being pretty clever because he was taking the documents and putting them in the newspaper and putting them in his trash. So there were five searches of his trash between August and September of 2006 and every single one they found designs, drawing, diagrams, technical data, engineering modification reports, stuff for the space shuttle. I think he had a feeling they might be looking at him because his buddy CHI was in trouble. So he was trying to slide it in the trash. Once they found all this they're, like, we need to take a closer look at this guy which they did.
So I'm going to tell you, as an investigator, the one thing I would love for you to do, can you keep a journal of everything you do. Because it makes it so much easier for me. It's, like, you just write my report for me. He kept a journal documenting everything. There's really no way he could say, you know, there's just no way. The journal was interesting because it gave a lot of insight into what he did and why. The big part of it was the modernization project with China. Back more in the 70s. It was China was, like, we need this technology. We need to be competitive on the market. We need to be economically a super power. If we can't come up with the stuff or buy it we're going steal it. And that was basically he wanted to help his homeland. So he actually, like, got a big bunch of stuff together and just sent it to a university guy in China. And he was, like, can you get us some more. Sure. Got you covered.
So eventually 300,000 pages of documents were found in his house. Project 863 is kind of a newer version of more modernization. Google it if you want to know more. This is a picture of the outside of his house. I've seen video of the inside. There was not a surface area that wasn't covered in stacks of paper. And he had a crawl space. It was, like, those big metal shelves. I mean, it was just amazing. You just got to respect the guy. He didn't have a little stick. He took the shit right. I was, like, damn. Apparently I heard someone say at one point when they looked at it all he had the largest repository of space shuttle in the world in his basement. One of the things they found in his house during the search was a (inaudible) list. When they started giving him stuff they were can you please give us this. They literally gave him a grocery list of what they wanted and they would get it and bring it back. This is just an example of the kind of stuff he was handing over to them. There was another tasking list. This is the one that went when they were in Chi's home. They were going through him because he didn't have access to all the same stuff, so they were, like, whatever they couldn't do he was sub-contracting out to him. So this is the guy, this poor man. I actually use this with my daughter when she was learning how to spell. I'm like you don't want to get a crappy nickname from them jacking things up. He was literally known as the spy who couldn't spell. I am not kidding. I just started laughing the first time I read that. Brian Patrick Regan not the comedian, former Air force master sergeant. He was training to fly in the Air force. This occurred, like, '99 in to 2000. He was assigned NRO. He was a signal intelligence specialist. In '93 he was nearing the end '99 he was nearing the end of his service. He was worried about money because he was $117,000 in debt. He had four kids to send to college. So he did what all of us would do, he wrote a letter to Saddam Hussein. (Laughter) He said hey, Saddam, I have some shit you might want. I'll give it to you for $13 million. He also sent letters to Libya and Cuba and China. So we had a foreign source somewhere on one of those who saw this letter and came back to us and said hey guys, you got somebody trying to, you know, get rid of your shit you might want to check on this. They couldn't figure out who it was. All they had were the letters were horrible misspellings. It was just really bad. So literally when they were trying to find this guy they were looking for the bad speller.
For those who had to read "of mice and men" some accounts compare him to Lenny. Literally they really did call him, like, people that said kind of like Lenny. A bright guy but had trouble communicating and said he always felt stupid and he really struggled with writing because he was dyslexic. So in 2001 the FBI arrested him at Dulles airport on board a plane getting ready to go to Zurich. He told his boss he was taking the wife and kids to Disneyland. He lied. When they arrested him, this is what he had on him. He had stuff in his pocket. He had classified papers. He had notebooks and cards and they could not make heads or tails of it. This is the other funny part. The NSA couldn't break any of his stuff. Now to their credit, 911 had just happened, they had other stuff on their plate. This dude wasn't high on the list of priorities. So this landed in the lap of an FBI cryptic analyst named Daniel Olson who managed to crack all this. Kudos to him. Good job. What was interesting was that Olson kind of was looking at dyslexic stuff and was figuring out there was a technique some of them use where they use pictures or words instead of numbers to help things from getting transposed in their mind. So, if you looked at these words (inaudible) so he kind of thought about them. Then he says you know what, five fingers, one, three, five fingers, four wheels on a car. So it was found near his AmeriTrade account number in his AmeriTrade account number and it worked. It was a pin code for the AmeriTrade account. So they took this theory and kind of applied it to all the other stuff they found that was in this category of the words. And they actually figured out we don't have the full sight of the number but the first three digits were Chinese missile sites. So they were able to go now we know what he is doing here.
The next in his wallet there was a paper with a string of wallets. He was inspired by the movie man hunter with Hannibal lector. So he used the book code to do this Caesar thing and it turned out to be addresses of Swiss banks so he could put all the money his buddy Saddam was going to give him over there. And then there are these pages of notes, right, and it took them a long time to figure this one out. Because they couldn't get the key. So finally he was trying to be a helpful guy, he ends up telling them that there were 19 these all ends up to be longitude GPS coordinates for the caches where he buried the data. Originally he stole this stuff and hid it in a locker but then he put it in garbage bags and dug holes in the ground and put it in there. In case you are wondering holes in the ground and a garbage ground are not authorizes storage methods for classified materials. Trust me on that. There were 19 caches total. 12 in Virginia. At the state park. Seven in Maryland. The state park. And apparently he used the NRO phone list for the Virginia ones. And his Virginia high school yearbook for the ones in Maryland. Then he told the guys they could also drive north on 95, exit 12 A, walk up the ramp, pick up the toothbrush container he buried by the fence and it had everything in plain text because he was worried he might lose his papers and forget so he wanted a backup which was buried in a toothbrush container on an exit ramp on 95. So in Virginia in that park they went out and I think he was messing with them. Went out behind the trees and they found the ones that he marked with nails and they dug all these holes and couldn't find it and he said dug on the opposite side. They found it. They went to Maryland and tried to did the same thing and couldn't find it there. He goes, well no the trees with the nails I put it across from it. Basically, you know, he's all into the whole crypto thing. The funny part I thought was he made it so complicated he ended up forgetting it and he had to re crack his own code. So learn how to spell kids. Or get a good nickname.
Current research. I'm glad I have time to get to this. This first one is really relevant especially with what just happened to the general in Afghanistan. I ran across this article and I included a link to it. I honestly am not super up on the technology. I thought it was really neat to put a technical thing on this kind of non-technical concept.
Are you him? Dude that was awesome. If you have questions about this, the dude is right here!
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So in a nutshell, (inaudible) flow, algorithm, they say, you know
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>> That kind of makes more sense right? Look at that. That's crazy. This is, like, really modern shit. Okay so the guy he was a counter intelligence agent named Bill Snell. What he figured out was that if you are looking at an image that has you have some emotional attachment to, then you send off this really big signal out of a portion of your brain. And so what they did was first they put this helmet on you. And it's an no it's MRI. They're looking at electromagnetic activity that comes out of your brain. They were going to take a bunch of Iraqi troops and also Afghan troops, put this helmet on them and first, you know, establish a baseline then start showing them pictures that if they were a potential insider threat they would have an emotional attachment toward, like, the picture of a particular person that they may have come in contact with, a picture of a particular place that only an insider threat would possibly know. So this way, because your brain sends out this signal far too fast for you to attempt to hide it or officate it then using the data they were getting from this helmet they would know if you are lying far more effectively than if you had to explicitly lie. But you didn't have to actually say anything. You didn't have to go ahead and do the whole lie. Your brain was indicating your familiarity emotionally with a picture or with a subjects that was a telltale sign of your insider threat. So what they're trying to do right now is sell this actually in Afghanistan and Iraq to U.S. military so they can stick them on troops that are with the Afghan or Iraqi military that we're working with to pre detect potential insider threats.
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>> Thank you. There's a link to his article at the bottom of the slide. So you can probably link on that and get his contact information or, you know, maul him after this. I'm sure he doesn't mind. This one's really neat. This is plagiarism algorithm detection. So I'm so old when I wrote my papers for college the first time I did it in long hand. Right. You got extra credit if you typed your paper. So what this is I just recently finished master's graduate work and everything I did I had to do this turn it in thing. Has anyone done this? So this is kind of cool. It takes your paper and it runs it past everything on the planet apparently and in two seconds it can figure out this report. And it kind of gives you a familiarity thing. So, like, you have to turn the report in with your paper to your professor to know you haven't basically copied the whole thing and plagiarized it. Really kind of neat I thought. But what some kind figured out to do is you can use the same theory instead of running it past you are going to look at emails leaving your facilities or your sites or your organization. Because, you know, maybe Greg Chung can get 300,000 pages out but, you know, people may be more hesitant now. They're like I can just email it to my house right and nobody will catch me going out the back door with it. So what this does is it takes all the emails, puts them through a filter. And it does, like, the same type of algorithm. You can set a threshold for your intellectual property. To look at every email. If anything hits the threshold where you are, like, wait a minute we don't want all that leaving you can set it to alert but let it go so you can look into it. Or if there's a lot, it can go that is not going anywhere. You can actually stop the email before it even leaves. This was really interesting. I have a whole sources section where I cited (inaudible) and back. I just finished graduate work so everything is cited and this whole paper is listed. Then the last one, a couple years ago this gentleman presented a black hat on (inaudible) forensics. Is anyone familiar with that? No. This is so cool if you are into math.
So he is looking from a forensic perspective at your computer usage. If you sit down and use your computer every day it's a baseline for how you act and what you do. If you are copying large masses of things that changes your pattern. Because suddenly it's not your normal baseline. They can go back and look at this and maybe not necessarily use it for evidence. But it could be an indicator of something you might need to look at closer. It is a very technical paper and I can just write snort rules now. I'm not to this other level. But if you are read at this level check it out and there's interviews with him and articles. So point you in that direction. Are we good on time? Two minutes. Okay. Really fast. Mitigation. Funny cartoon my guy gave me but it's really sad at the same time because it's true. Communication and awareness, oh my gosh that's a whole other presentation. We'll do that next year. These are some of the organizational factors they found that are really the biggest contributors to whether or not you have more potential threat. The ease of which people can get stuff out of your organization. How you handle disciplinary things. You know, do you actually have consequences for bad behavior or do you just kind of ignore it or blow it off? Then what can we do? Big thing is support your security people. Support the job they're trying to do not just with attaboys but money if they need it.
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And, you know, you need to work with your people. They're not, like, tokens on a chess board. They're people. You need to understand them. And you need to understand what makes them tick. And you need to understand how that can affect your organization if they start ticking wrong. I think I am out of time. What do you do? Call someone trusted, your general counsel, your legal department, your, what do they call it what do government people call it? The hotlines. Whatever those numbers are. And then sources. On the slide, you should have all this. I gave you pretty much everything I researched. So anyway, thank you.
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